[SLE] SOLVED!! Re: [SLE] Can't get video clips to play from laptop through projector -- long, sorry.

On Mon May 8 2006 1:16 pm, S Glasoe wrote:
On Monday 08 May 2006 10:41 am, Gil Weber wrote:
Maybe a major stumbling block in figuring this out is that I do
not have a projector to test possible solutions. I will get my
first chance in 2 weeks, when I fly 1500 miles to lecture and only
then connect to a projector. Yikes! What a mess.

gil

Projector or not, if you have a spare monitor laying around (like the
one that your wife isn't using right this very moment) will do for
now. That way you'll gain more experience with dual-head and getting
what you need displayed where you want it with this laptop.

I believe what happened was that totem is defaulting to the laptop
screen. You haven't told it to display to the other
screen/projector/monitor. Figure out how to tell
totem/xine/mplayer/ogle/tetris to use the other head/display adapter
is the key.

I don't have a dual head configuration right here, right now to help
with this. Just helping with the hardware troubleshooting setup.

Stan


Stan, Jurgen, and everyone who offered help with my problem. Many
thanks. I have found a workable solution. Here it is.

First, Totem simply doesn't have the configuration options necessary, so
I switched players.

I found that both Mplayer and KMplayer will allow necessary
configuration. Here's what I did.

I opened KMplayer > settings > configure KMplayer > general options >
output. Here I selected "X11Shm" and clicked apply, and then closed
everything.

Then I set the file associations for all my videos so that they would
open using KMplayer.

Then I clicked on a video clip and it opened on my laptop AND the
desktop monitor connected to the laptop! Success!!

Then to get the video to display full-screen I toggle "f" and I can get
exactly what I was missing when I gave my presentation last Friday.

I chose KMplayer over Mplayer simply because I find the control buttons
(start/stop/pause/etc) easier to use in KMplayer.

The only thing left is to figure out how to create a playlist in
KMplayer so that I can click on the list of file names one-at-a-time to
play the videos rather than closing and opening each video from the
folder of video clips.

Gil

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